Syria: Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of the Islamist group in Syria that oversaw the ousting of Bashar al-Assad, has unveiled ...

The largest reforms to the National Disability Insurance Scheme are moving so fast that promises made to people with disability are already “being broken” to secure billions of dollars’ worth of ...

Beware the cryptic bug! Once you get a glimpse behind the seemingly baffling clues, an alluring realm of wordplay, wit and poetry is revealed. And, while beginners can sometimes feel that cryptics are ...

I’m always uncomfortable nominating just one book as my book of the year, but if I had to then it would probably be Percival Everett’s James (Mantle, 320pp, $34.99). A retelling of Mark Twain’s ...

I can say precisely when the last measure of my respect for the prime minister evaporated. It was October 3, the day Anthony Albanese asked each of us to look inside a bag of salt-and-vinegar chips ...

The Olympics returned, and so did the spectators, liberated this year from the Covid restrictions that both delayed the previous games and cruelled Tokyo’s atmosphere. Just weeks before the opening ...

This was a year in which Australian artists showed how local narratives and voices can enrich global conversations to foster deeper understanding. The primary example was Archie Moore’s installation ...

The Coalition is moving to undo the First Nations naming of Australian military bases as it escalates its opposition to race-based symbols and other reconciliation policies. A senior Coalition source ...

Focus group research by RedBridge indicates that voter perceptions of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese are as bad as they were for his predecessor Scott Morrison, strengthening the growing belief that ...

Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest, adapted from the Martin Amis novel about the family of a Nazi commandant who lives next door to the Auschwitz concentration camp, was the outstanding film of ...

The things we humans do to ourselves. Nor is there anything to say that, after a few days of excess and mandatory cheer, we should enter the reflective, self-critical state of composing resolutions ...

We’re running late. By the time we have woven through central Barcelona’s warren of alleys and plazas to reach Plaça de Sant Felip Neri, the square’s entrance is fenced off by a flimsy yellow ...